Stadium Arcadium is the first post-Blood Sugar Chili Peppers album that actually sounds like it was reasonably fun to make; a source of mindless summer entertainment that people really shouldn’t feel ashamed to enjoy.

This was the album by RHCP that caught my attention when I was first not-so-cherry-picking my music taste. This is by no means a great album. In fact, it's rather boring and nothing interesting. Dani California and Snow are the only tracks I cared about then and they're the only songs that make it to just below "meh" level for me now.

Yeah, I like this more than most fans do, it was the first album I bought with my own money on CD. This is RHCP at their most ambitious and exploring all sorts of ideas in the studio, going through almost all of their influences over the years. Maybe it ends up sounding not very coherent, but there are some constant elements that are extraordinary throughout, most of all, the strings. This is a tour de force for Frusciante and Flea who were given a lot of autonomy in the creation process and ... read more